This isn't the first time auto-makers have tried to design a motorcycle-car hybrid, but as "Top Gear" showed us a few years back, the Reliant Robin was hardly practicle. We really hope Lit Motors Inc. improved on that, because they're attempting to develop a new breed of motorcycle-car hybrids. Fortunately, developers say it'll take a baby elephant to knock this one over.

The Lit C-1 is technically a motorcycle, as it runs on two wheels, but has a chassis that looks a lot like a smart car. The vehicle uses a system of sensors and gyros to stabilize the bike, even if it gets it, and has built-in "smartphone" technology that keep it up-to-date on traffic and weather. It also uses an electric motor. Lit explains, "We are reinventing the motorcycle and rethinking the future of commuting to create green jobs supporting a sustainable future." They should be hitting the streets in 2014. Want one?

Finally something to get me through traffic! Obviously motorcycles are "cooler" and are likely more fun, but my kids having a dad is pretty cool too. The body of this thing is basically an auto racing style roll cage, only with airbags! Also, this is hugely more convenient as a commuter.

Yes,Its an innovative design and the gyrostabilization is Beautifully engineered,Its a rather nice vehicle albeit a little small. The whole concept of a moto-car(motocar?,carcycle?re... robin 2k14?) Is a very fragile science as it is,prototype vehicles are usually the only fruit of the industry so far.I also have a concern or two about the electric motor,where would it be charged,how long would it take,how much will it cost.despite these concerns I would very much like to have one or two of these little vehicles

These are not new. They were popular when I was in college half a century ago. Back then, they were kits for fiberglass covers over a motorcycle. We called them "Messerschmitts," because the motorcycle cover looked like the cockpit of a WWII German fighter airplane.

If I want to drive a car, I'll drive a car. If I want to ride a motorcycle, I will ride a motorcycle. Damn it. That thing just looks like it screams, "I'm for the ladies, and little fairy-type men who want to try to be cool."

That's a motorcycle.

I like scooters, too, and think that those scooters that look like motorcycles are kind of silly, too. On the other hand, if this car/motorcycle thing is designed and made completely in the U.S., I might consider it just for that fact. Good thing I'm a lady. lol

beautiful Indian!! ... wait - can I say "Indain" anymore? ... could I drive that magnificent motorcycle in Oregon, where they just put down their joints/crackpipes long enough to vote to make naming practically anything after an Indian tribe (or anything else) illegal?

I think if you call it a 2 wheel commuter vehicle it might get better acceptance. When I rode motorcycles it was for the wind in my face and the free feeling. Putting a cabin around it makes it a car. The unrealistic specs are not likely to materialize:120 miles per hour and 220 miles per charge. And $24,000 starting price puts it in the price range of the Hybrids and plug-in electrics that have much higher utility. It's a NO for me.

Some folks have enough to do just to operate one or the other; now you want to add to the confusion? Okay, maybe if the Dark Knight, Batman, was at the controls; but the average mofo...? Hell to tha' no!